Mexico Supreme Court says ...Ban Unconstitutional

[Matanuska Thunder]

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that an absolute ban on recreational use of marijuana was unconstitutional, effectively leaving it to lawmakers to regulate consumption of the drug.

 

Announcing it had found in favor of two legal challenges filed against prohibition of recreational marijuana use, Mexico’s top court crossed the threshold needed to create jurisprudence: five similar rulings on the matter.

 

That creates a precedent other Mexican courts will have to follow.

“This is a historic day,” Fernando Belaunzaran, an advocate of drug reform and member of the opposition leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), said.

 

The Supreme Court made its first ruling to allow a group of people to grow marijuana for personal use in November 2015.

In a statement, the court said the ruling did not create an absolute right to use marijuana and that consumption of certain substances could still be subject to regulation.

“But the effects caused by marijuana do not justify an absolute prohibition on its consumption,” it said.

 

The court ordered federal health regulator COFEPRIS to authorize people seeking the right to use marijuana to do so personally, “albeit without allowing them to market it, or use other narcotics or psychotropic drugs.”

Congress would now have to act to regulate the use of marijuana in Mexico, Belaunzaran said.

Officials in the incoming government of President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador have indicated they could take steps to legalize marijuana quickly as part of a broader strategy to fight poverty and crime.

 

From: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-drugs/mexico-supreme-court-says-ban-on-recreational-marijuana-unconstitutional-idUSKCN1N638D 

 

[bloodshot_eyes]

The more countries that legalise around the world, the better argument we have to legalise it here 

[kloud9]

Too right, but this is Australia, we are heaps far behind...

[Indycar]

There's whispers if the coalition lose power at the next election, it could take them two terms to get their shit together. So potentially a 8 year stop gap of the conservatives could work in it's favour for us to head the similar way. Though I doubt much will change here until USA Feds change their stance on it.

 

But then it still comes back to how each State/Territory legislates it once our Fed Gov/AMA/TGA change it's their stance on it as well. It's a long shot, but there's is a potential for change still. Either way, I won't be holding my breath and we'll keep doing what we do.

[Matanuska Thunder]

At the rate the canna-world is going, Canada and Mexico will both have legal canna before the yanks do, and NZ will legalize before Australia. 

[kloud9]

At the rate the canna-world is going, Canada and Mexico will both have legal canna before the yanks do, and NZ will legalize before Australia.

Shit I hate it when your right [emoji23]

[bloodshot_eyes]

There is actually nothing stopping state governments from legalising it here, its state jurisdiction not federal. It will happen here state by state. Once one state goes though, the rest will eventually follow. There will probably be one or two states that take 20 years longer than others though so we will live in a strange situation where you cross the state border and its illegal again.